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> consolidate everything into a small set of core titles

This already happened in the early 2000s. If you were around back then, you might remember how everything was sequels and rehashes for a while. Diversity of ideas returned to the industry only after it became practicable to publish and monetize indie games (post-Braid).

Microsoft and Embracer recently bought the whole industry. Now they might be about to light a match and set fire to the whole thing. OK, but fortunately, all the talented passionate people with the ideas and drive to create new things still exist in the world. I believe many players will find their way back to them, no matter how sufficent "garbage" is for the majority of people. If milking the uncaring baseline consumer was all that mattered to videogame creatives, they'd all be making ad-driven smartphone shovelware.
We live in an attention economy but the content that demands our attention is increasingly low value. Often the vast majority of podcast content and YouTube video content could be simplified to maybe 10% of what is there. I have unfortunately seen this in some of the nonfiction books I read as well, which tend to spend way too much time on filler and fluff than actually advancing the main points. This wastes my time and irritates me. (Stuart Russell’s most recent book is majority garbage.)
Nope, absurd property-speculation driven tax burdens and chaotic zoning inevitably drive out both residential dwellings and business competition.

Cities were traditionally a side-effect of communication hubs, trade collocated with rail/shipping locales, and centralized labor-driven stable factory lines. Communication is now decentralized due to technology changes since the early 90's, trade is now settled with online brokerages/logistics, and factories were either outsourced or moved into more favorable tax districts to maintain competitive posture.

Most modern cities are now running unsustainable theme-park service economies. Note municipal districts are never stripped of jurisdictional tax boundaries, and this still holds true even for areas in economic decline due to mismanagement/arrogance.

Have a wonderfully awesome day, and I thank god it is not my task to try and fix these issues =)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...
That may be fair. Arguably different constraints. But would probably be pretty radioactive especially with a Lolita at an age faithful to the book.
> Respectfully, this is the type of true-that-sounds-deep statements that are absolutely shallow and pointless.

And yet people still insist on the idea that money (or, quite commonly, gold) does have some kind of intrinsic value. The statement may be trope-y, but it's a psychological hurdle that many folks can't seem to get their head around.
It would be awesome if the the entire bridge could slowly move as one while traffic keeps flowing over it. That would require far more and far bulkier wheels than the current ones designed to carry only one support segment. That will have to remain the stuff of fantasies...
Build Your Own Htmx
Every time I think about buying an iPad, I just find myself wishing there was a legit / better approach to, you know, computing on it.... I don’t do much for fun besides work on things that need compilers, debuggers, dynamic analysis, linking, JIT execution, tracing, and suchlike. All such endeavors are firmly impossible on iOS and iPadOS.

I think touch computers had enormous potential that has mostly been permanently squandered by making them into entertainment devices for users — not owners, and certainly not operators. The product barely even really belongs to you from that perspective.

This is something that Stallman and the Free Software movement got absolutely bang-on: proprietary software seeks to control its users and prevent them from truly owning and operating their computers. It’s almost impossible to overstate how important free computing is, and how much more important it will become in the future if we don’t secure our access to it.
Less children? We have more singles than ever.
> On macOS, for example, Zed makes direct use of Metal. We have our own shaders, our own renderer, and we put a lot of effort into understanding macOS APIs to get to 120FPS.

So they are taking the exact opposite approach of Electron (VS Code).

In my mind, if you're someone who types in HN comments in a rage because your text editor (VS Code) eats up 200+ MB ram, you don't get to cry about Zed not being supported on Linux from day one, because you can't have your cake and eat it too - if you want it on your platform, you gotta wait for the shaders to be written.
Traffic is currently redirected into the emergency lane 100% of the time, so this is still an improvement.
Japan is not a xenophobic country
It's almost as if every part of the stack -- from the uArch that Apple designs down to the insane machinery from ASML, to the fully finished SoC delivered by TSMC -- is vitally important to creating a successful product.

But people like to assign credit solely to certain spaces if it suits their narrative (lately, Apple isn't actually all that special at designing their chips, it's all solely the process advantage)
I would love to be the candidate in this interview. Are you hiring? :-)
Meanwhile Apple bakes the RAM,CPU,GPU all into the same "chip".
Good luck with that.
Thanks. I had no idea you could play split screen on Steam games. I'll definitely set this up.
Interesting analogies for LLMs! (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W%5EX & https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Return-oriented_programming)
I'm in that situation. We bought a starter home not knowing we'd get priced out of ever upgrading. If I knew then what I know now we would have bought the biggest house we could possible have gotten a mortgage on. But like you said the economy was shaky and we were afraid to overextend.

To upgrade would mean paying more than double what we pay now per month and starting a new 30 year mortgage in my 40's, which I'm just not going to do.
For 512 bits you would need four LPCAMM2s. I could imagine putting two on opposite sides of the SoC but four might require a huge motherboard.
Yeah, there are some caveats to using desktop portals this way, but at least it'll usually give you a native dialog. I do wonder what happens on a machine with no desktop portals, though. I suppose in the future it probably would be feasible to implement a decent file picker directly in GPUI as a fallback, so it's not that big of a deal; I reckon they could make one that's more usable than the GTK one anyways.
Can it call the emergency services?
> Volvo XC30 ... will be almost entirely touchscreen driven,

Pretty much blows away the "Volvo is safer" marketing message.
> you can also only read for so long before your eyes get tired

I'd say you need some eye correction then. Ever since I got glasses, getting tired by reading means it's time for a visit to the optometrist to update my lenses.
Not the poster, but I personally know folks who have gone

Assembly (for 6800 series Macs) -> C (PC on windows) -> Java (hosted on prem) -> Cloud hosted Java + JS/React.

Depending on your definition of ‘foundational principles’ either nothing has changed, or everything has. But one thing is clear, the day to day is completely different.
I used to swim near it. It is indeed warmer and I have had no issues (other than my natural personality )
Hundreds of other families is my neighborhood, community, connection. I invest in my people not property.
How to check if a DLL and an exe is a .NET assembly
I feel like people would miss the forest for the trees here. Google design docs are nothing special. The special part is hard to replicate elsewhere: the reviews and the thoughtful comments they often receive that prevent a lot of wastage of time and resources, and the way these comments are selectively incorporated by the authors. That comes from knowing shit and giving a shit, the latter quality being in short supply as of late industry wide, including at Google.
The Alignment Problem
> And compared with the latest PC chip in a thin and light laptop, M4 can deliver the same performance using just a fourth of the power

It can deliver the same performance as itself at just a fourth of the power than it's using? That's incredible!
From what I understand Zed is a text editor that is built like a game engine, which I understand is why the marketing copy uses the term "multiplayer" rather than "multiuser". I didn't find other mention of its multiplayer capabilities, which is too bad. Has anyone used it for that purpose, I'm curious as to what the experience was like.
Contextual and combinatorial structure in sperm whale vocalisations
"The researchers identified something of a "sperm whale phonetic alphabet," where various elements that researchers call "rhythm," "tempo," "rubato," and "ornamentation" interplay to form a vast array of distinguishable codas. For example, the whales would systematically modulate certain aspects of their codas based on the conversational context, such as smoothly varying the duration of the calls—rubato—or adding extra ornamental clicks. But even more remarkably, they found that the basic building blocks of these codas could be combined in a combinatorial fashion, allowing the whales to construct a vast repertoire of distinct vocalizations.

The experiments were conducted using acoustic bio-logging tags (specifically something called "D-tags") deployed on whales from the Eastern Caribbean clan. These tags captured the intricate details of the whales' vocal patterns. By developing new visualization and data analysis techniques, the CSAIL researchers found that individual sperm whales could emit various coda patterns in long exchanges, not just repeats of the same coda. These patterns, they say, are nuanced and include fine-grained variations that other whales also produce and recognize."
> Apple marketed their PPC systems as "a supercomputer on your desk"

It's certainly fair to say that twenty years ago Apple was marketing some of its PPC systems as "the first supercomputer on a chip"[^1].

> but it was nowhere near the performance of a supercomputer of that age.

That was not the claim. Apple did not argue that the G4's performance was commensurate with the state of the art in supercomputing. (If you'll forgive me: like, fucking obviously? The entire reason they made the claim is precisely because the latest room-sized supercomputers with leapfrog performance gains were in the news very often.)

The claim was that the G4 was capable of sustained gigaflop performance, and therefore met the narrow technical definition of a supercomputer.

You'll see in the aforelinked marketing page that Apple compared the G4 chip to UC Irvine’s Aeneas Project, which in ~2000 was delivering 1.9 gigaflop performance.

This chart[^2] shows the trailing average of various subsets of super computers, for context.

This narrow definition is also why the machine could not be exported to many countries, which Apple leaned into.[^3]

> Maybe similar performance to a supercomputer from the 1970's

What am I missing here? Picking perhaps the most famous supercomputer of the mid-1970s, the Cray-1,[^4] we can see performance of 160 MFLOPS, which is 160 million floating point operations per second (with an 80 MHz processor!).

The G4 was capable of delivering ~1 GFLOP performance, which is a billion floating point operations per second.

Are you perhaps thinking of a different decade?

[^1]: https://web.archive.org/web/20000510163142/http://www.apple....

[^2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_supercomputing#/med...

[^3]: https://web.archive.org/web/20020418022430/https://www.cnn.c...

[^4]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cray-1#Performance
There's won (outright) and "won (given the situation)" - nobody would say that being hit by a car is "winning" but someone who was hit by a car, and survived when expected not to; they probably count the survival as winning.

No landlord wants to pay a tenant or squatter or whatnot to leave, but often it's the quickest and cheapest way to the goal; though if it becomes too common it ends up as a downside overall.

Some quite old (think 80-90s) landlording books I've read even talk about hiring a moving crew and a truck, finding a new apartment and paying the first and last month's rent for the tenant to get them out. Not out of goodness of their heart (though it may have seemed like that) but because those costs were less than lost revenue + cost of eviction + (potential) loss of a sale.
This is how I manage my dotfiles, and it has worked pretty well for me.
There is no super formal definition of these terms, people think on different things when they hear about them. Even cryptocurrencies could not be crypto.

I will not start arguing about NFTs, it is enough to say that the technology is useful in one place and not in another and help people to transact internationally.
> I've tried a lot of different things to up the amount of time she spends reading... she's more willing to invest in graphic novels than prose novels

If you haven't yet, push out beyond fiction. In my experience, libraries have a really divergent collection of large, illustrated volumes.

When I was 5-10 I read comic strip books - but also encyclopedias. Specifically World Book; Britannica was too dry.

note: I've no complaint with graphic novels. Sons 1, 2 & 5 were big into them. One is writing fiction. Two was into physics and anime, is now into psychology and early Japanese film making. Five performs+crafts his own music videos.
Prove it.

No, seriously, that's my argument: prove it, for any given buyback. It's not obvious!

Let's pick, totally arbitrarily (I searched "stock buybacks 2016" and this is one of the first things that came up), Disney's 2016 buybacks, totalling $7.5B. Let's say I owned 100 shares of DIS from 2010 to 2019. Make an argument for me that those specific buybacks increased my wealth. (Hopefully by about the per-share value of the buyback, as a dividend would have.)

I don't think it's obvious, even if it's true. Which is the problem. The opacity leads to skepticism leads to polemics.
This is likely due to culture established by the teams working on old, mature products. There, you're going to work with at least 10 people to launch trivial projects. In my case, it's usually 20~30 people with a blast radius of 100~500. You're not going to casually 1:1 with all of them since you and they are all busy. If you don't get a good review from stakeholders, there's a good chance that some angry folks will come for you and make you roll back your launch.

In these contexts, design docs are meant as an asynchronous communication tool for information heavy topics. And this is so asynchronous, you will talk to those people join 10 years later if you product becomes so successful. I've been saved multiple times thanks to some random design doc from 2010 that explains the weird decision that still haunts us. This probably doesn't work very well on lean/small teams or less complex tasks. But engineering culture usually has its own rationale and context, even if it has become a cargo culture.
You also implicitly filter out people who were in their 20s when Github et al didn't exist.
That doesn't seem to reflect in the battery life of these. They have the same exact battery life. Does it mean it's not entirely accurate? Since they don't indicate the battery capacity in their specs, it's hard to confirm this.
They are pretty honest when it comes to battery life claims, they’re less honest when it comes to benchmark graphs
RailsConf 2025 will be the last
Barismo in Cambridge does (or did) a "hot draft" coffee, that is always on tap, is delicious, and is remarkably like hot cold brew. Their method is apparently a secret (although I'm sure more digging could find it), but I wouldn't be surprised if it wasn't basically on-demand heated cold brew. [1]

1. https://www.baristamagazine.com/the-function-and-future-of-b...
> And here it is in an OS that can't even max out an M1

Do you really want your OS using 100% of CPU?
> will introduce

Incredible that in the future there will be better chips than what Apple is releasing now.
Interest rates increase the cost of financing. This means that given the same monthly budget, you're still going to spend your whole budget. You get less house for the same amount of money. The difference is that the money goes to the bank instead of the previous owner. At some point housing prices do drop, but the reality is that demand exceeds supply. The problem isn't financing itself. Places with supply exceeding demand massively benefit from cheaper financing as it makes the cost of living smaller.
TikTok sues the US government over law that could ban the app
I think their logic is it makes 2% more profit not to do it.
iPadOS 16.3.1 can run virtual machines on M1/M2 silicon, https://old.reddit.com/r/jailbreak/comments/18m0o1h/tutorial...

Hypervisor support was removed from the iOS 16.4 kernel, hopefully it will return in iPadOS 18 for at least some approved devices.

If not, Microsoft/HP/Dell/Lenovo Arm laptops with M3-competitive performance are launching soon, with mainline Linux support.
We use them every day at Zed for pair programming, we're rather fond of the features :D
Silly outlier anecdote. There's a $500k Rolls Royce too, doesn't mean I can't find $5/lb of coffee at Costco or that my functional car isn't $6k.
Yeah, and we rightfully criticize Intel for the same and we distrust their benchmarks
I'm talking about things like 8/16/32/64-bit processors, CISC vs RISC, from mainframes to personal computers, from isolated machines to ubiquity of modern Internet, quantum computing etc. Note that I'm talking about the fundamentals of software engineering, not software science.
Reading is a solitary activity. I stopped reading when I was in a relationship, so I have to spend some leisure time together. It was terrible at first, then I found Lars Von Trier films and the burden was a bit better, so... that was it.

Also, society has changed so much.

I grew up in a time when there was no such thing as "children's books". My first reading was some pulp fiction, then some bestsellers, then Dracula. I got to Wuthering Heights when I was n. I found it gripping, but I understood almost nothing. Luckily - crazy luckily - I have a friend, a n-year-old girl, who also read Wuthering and introduced me to it. So I read it again.
It's probably a mistake to think kids need new books to be published. The classics are classic for a reason. There are many childhoods worth of incredible books already available. I'm not weeping for struggling authors. If they write something incredible it will be noticed, if they don't then just like you said Bridge to Terabithia, Nancy Drew, Redwall, HP, The Hardy Boys, Chronicles of Narnia, Eragon, etc, etc, etc. still exist.
Did you really expect a yes?
St. Louis has paved 27% of its downtown core, maybe we stop designing our cities for cars and design them for people, if we want them to not be empty.

https://parkingreform.org/parking-lot-map/
Does a single-computer license count as "lifetime" though?
It is kind of crazy to look back on. In the future we might look forward to path tracing and more physically accurate renderers. (Or perhaps all the lighting will be hallucinated by AI...?)
Places that aren't on SCE, SDG&E, or PG&E. My utility is municipal, and my rates are about 17 cents a kWh. It's awesome.
> ...Uh, come the 90s, Bridge to Terabithia was a required reading book that I don't think anyone my age cared about

> I think it's much simpler, adults don't know what kids are interested in

Pretty much everyone I know (including myself) who read a lot as a kid but doesn't read much anymore identifies being forced to read things in school as the reason they don't. Being forced to read stuff we didn't find interesting isn't the whole issue though because I think there are things I might have actually enjoyed reading in another context. In my experience, the larger issue is what happened in the classroom alongside the reading. Most if not all teachers I had would give quizzes designed to ensure we kept up with the reading that essentially would pick out tiny random details from the assigned chapters ask us about them, and that took the focus away from actually absorbing the higher-level themes and insights that I'd normally make when reading on my own. Even worse, when discussing things afterwards in the classroom, there was usually a certain analysis or viewpoint that was deemed "correct" that we were supposed to figure out and be able to reproduce when we were tested on the entirety of the book after we finished it. Making me read a book to memorize random details and _not_ have any thoughts of my own on what things meant because I would just get told what to think later ruined any enjoyment I used to have of reading; they might as well have just given me a page of bullet points to memorize than give me an entire book full of pages and pages of stuff to distract from what they actually were trying to make me learn.
Have you given the Getting Started docs pages a go? Indeed it's mostly still reference/conceptual content, and not oriented towards specific workflows yet. We've been wanting to get that kind of content written for quite some time, but the reality is we're a small group (often volunteering our time) and there's still an immense amount of reference and conceptual gaps that need addressing.
> The secret is heavy reliance on swap

You are entirely (100%) wrong, but, sadly, NDA...
Good. Now Bluesky can finally be free of his bad reputation.

Dorsey is all-in on crypto and he's mad that Bluesky doesn't use it.
Wow the tenderloin sandwich is amazing! In Czechia it's kinda traditional that if a family have some longer travel ahead of them that they will prepare pork schnitzels with pickles in a bun or bread. The meme is kids going on a field trip and everybody unpacking their schnitzel sandwiches and eating them before the bus even leaves the home town.

It's funny that this dish transferred all the way to USA and remained a community staple.
> I watched some of the videos on their YouTube playlist about blockchain and crypto […]

That was a special series on the topic.

Quite often they do have a list of prepared questions, and send them to guests ahead of time so they are somewhat prepared: depending on the answers they may delve more deeply into some answers.

The hosts (Ben and Cameron) also do prep ahead of time: they read the books—and more often research papers—of the guests, and so already know to a certain extent what they're going to say before they ask. The guests' answers are more for the viewers/listeners, and give the guest an opportunity to perhaps comment more 'free-style' than what can be written down.
My apologies then
> ...many of the main concerns could have been dispelled by Tiktok getting a source code and security audit...

Source code isn't static. For the sake of argument, a malicious actor could easily submit "clean" source code for review and insert malicious code once it has been audited.
These are... not books.

I'm not saying they are not worthy of consumption or anything like that, but A: I doubt very many teachers would accept a "book report" written about a graphic novel and B: consuming graphic novels, by their nature, is not purely reading. Your brain/imagination has far less work to do, as you don't have to mentally picture the scenes/people/actions, they are right there for you to look at.